CONNER, James Perry, a Representative from Iowa;
born in Delaware County, Ind., January 27, 1851;
attended the Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1873;
was admitted to the bar and practiced;
district attorney of the thirteenth judicial district of Iowa 1880-1884;
circuit judge of the thirteenth judicial district in 1884;
district judge of the sixteenth judicial district in 1886;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892;
elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan P. Dolliver;
reelected to the Fifty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 4, 1900, to March 3, 1909;
unsuccessful candidate in 1908 for reelection to the Sixty-first Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, where he died March 19, 1924;
interment in Oakland Cemetery.